Surjya Kanta Mishra

Surjya Kanta Mishra
Mishra in 2007
Member of Polit Bureau, Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Assumed office
April 2012
State Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), West Bengal
In office
2015–2022
Preceded byBiman Bose
Succeeded byMd. Salim
Cabinet Minister, Government of West Bengal
In office
16 May 1991 – 13 May 2011
Chief MinisterJyoti Basu
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
MinistryHealth & Family Welfare, Biotechnology, Panchayat Affairs & Rural Development
Preceded byPrasanta Chandra Sur
Succeeded bySubrata Mukherjee
Leader of the Opposition in West Bengal
In office
1 June 2011 – 19 May 2016
DeputySubhas Naskar
Preceded byPartha Chatterjee
Succeeded byAbdul Mannan
Member of Legislative Assembly, West Bengal
In office
1991–2016
Preceded byBibhuti Bhusan De
Succeeded byPradyot Kumar Ghosh
ConstituencyNarayangarh
Personal details
Born (1949-04-18) 18 April 1949 (age 75)
Narayangarh, West Bengal, India
Political partyCPI(M)
SpouseUsha Misra
Residence(s)Narayangarh, West Midnapore, West Bengal
Alma materSCB Medical College (MBBS)
Midnapore College (BSc)
ProfessionPolitician, Social worker, Doctor

Surjya Kanta Mishra (born 18 April 1949) is an Indian politician, belonging to the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He served as Minister of Health and Minister in-charge of Land & Land Reforms, Panchayats & Rural Development in the Left Front governments of West Bengal[1][2] and was the Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), West Bengal State Committee between 2015 and 2022.

After the 2011 assembly election he was elected as Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly in May 2011.[1] He was inducted into the politburo of the CPI(M) following the death of veteran leader M.K. Pandhe in 2011.[3][4] In 2015, he was elected as the state secretary of CPI(M) in West Bengal, succeeding Biman Bose.

  1. ^ a b "Surjya Kanta Mishra: A profile". The Hindu. 3 April 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  2. ^ Chaturvedi, Pradeep. Food Security and Panchayati Raj. New Delhi: Published for Indian Association for the Advancement of Science and Food & Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations by Concept Pub. Co, 1997. p. 289
  3. ^ Sengupta, Anindya (20 January 2012). "Rising sun in CPM's cloudy sky". The Telegraph. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  4. ^ tripurainfo.com. Surja Kanta predicts 7th Left Front government